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A pilot speech is the usual way to get your flight underway. But a United Airlines pilot speech at the weekend resulted in the pilot herself being removed from the flight deck and the aircraft itself. Some result.

Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto has a reputation that’s getting close to notoriety. So when he was 45 minutes or so late for a speech to the Economic Club of Canada members in Toronto everyone waited for the excuse. It seems he was stuck in the lift. Fear of public speaking it wasn’t.

Was an anxiety about public speaking behind the fact that Kim Jong-il, the former Supreme Leader of North Korea, never gave a speech in public. He has to be alone in the pantheon of dictators, past and present, never to have given a speech in public.

A speech by India’s External Affairs Minister, SM Krishna, at the United Nations caused a stir when it was realised that the Minister was delivering the wrong speech, someone else’s speech. You couldn’t make it up.